Andrey Rubanov is a sharp, observant, sharp writer. He is already known to the reader as the author of several brilliant and sensational novels - “Plant and it will grow”, “The Great Dream”, etc., which hit the most painful points of modern Russian reality. “Also Motherland” is Rubanov’s first book of stories in which he describes and evaluates today's time as a person who has passed it through himself, like a filter leaving the pure substance of life at the output.